As someone that was around for the C++ hype, it was designed as TypeScript for C, and many of the reasons why it didn't deliver was exactly those C refugees that kept writing C code, but now with a C++ compiler.
It is no different than those folks, now 20 years later, that adopt Typescript, but really the only thing they do is to rename the file extension, and keep writing plain old JavaScript as always.
It is no different than those folks, now 20 years later, that adopt Typescript, but really the only thing they do is to rename the file extension, and keep writing plain old JavaScript as always.